Ten residents of a building, including five children, were killed on Saturday morning when a four-storey building in Inderlok's Tulsi Nagar, north Delhi, came crashing down because of digging in the adjacent plot.

In the process of digging, the foundation of this building had got exposed and damaged. And survivors complained that the corporation officials had paid no heed to their complaints.

Around 8:30am, the building on a 22 square yards plot came down like a pack of cards.

As a routine reaction, North Delhi Municipal Corporation has suspended the junior engineer, Kaushik, and assistant engineer, R A Goel, in charge of the area, pending an inquiry ordered by the commissioner, P K Gupta. But the rot has gone so deep that mostly such probes fail to fix any accountability.

Naeem said work had been going on for a fortnight to construct a basement on the adjacent plot. This was a 18 square yards plot where an old building had been demolished 20 days back.

Other residents too complained to TOI that several distress calls had been made to the police and corporation in apprehension of such an eventuality but they turned a deaf ear.

Rescue workers clear debris at the site of a building collapse in New Delhi, India, Saturday, June 28, 2014.

Indians watch rescuers work at the site of a building that collapsed in New Delhi, India, Saturday, June 28, 2014.

Delhi Building Collapse Kills 10

Ten residents of a building, including five children, were killed on Saturday morning when a four-storey building in Inderlok's Tulsi Nagar, north Delhi, came crashing down because of digging in the adjacent plot.